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STAINER The Crucifixion
Has John Stainer’s 1887 warhorse ever truly gone out of fashion? This ‘Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil (Antonenko)
In recent years there has been almost an embarrassment of fine recordings of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, better (if erroneously) known...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
PERGOLESI Stabat Mater VIVALDI Nisi Dominus
This third album from PRJCT Amsterdam is also their Pentatone debut. Pergolesi’s Stabat mater and Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus must be...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
JEFFREYS 'Lost Majesty - Sacred Songs and Anthems'
If you have ever stopped to wonder about that awkward musical gap between William Byrd and Henry Purcell in traditional...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
HANDEL Neun Deutsche Arien (Daniel Saether)
Already well represented on disc and regularly reviewed in these pages, Handel’s Nine German Arias need little introduction save for...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
HANDEL Dixit Dominus. Laudate Pueri. Nisi Dominus
It was through the agency of one of his patrons in Rome, Cardinal Colonna, that Handel was commissioned to compose...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
DVOŘÁK; SCARLATTI Stabat Mater
By now, audiences know not to expect anything conventional from Simon-Pierre Bestion, who imposes all kinds of outside influences on...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024
DURUFLÉ Requiem POULENC Lenten Motets
In July 2022, having established themselves in the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache, the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge under...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
BEYDTS Melodies & songs (Cyrille Dubois)
Following on from their Gramophone Award-winning Fauré survey (8/22), Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës head into hitherto uncharted territory with...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024
JS BACH St Matthew Passion (arr Mendelssohn)
The story of how the 20-year-old Mendelssohn revived the unknown St Matthew Passion by Bach at a series of performances...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
ALFANO Songs
Franco Alfano is best known these days for his completion of Puccini’s Turandot but he was a prolific composer in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
The Journey of Orpheus; Andreas Staier: Méditation
These two German Baroque keyboard recitals are strikingly similar in both conception and programme. Zsombor Tóth-Vajna uses the Orpheus myth...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024
Eternity
This is the fourth release by the Cologne-based husband-and-wife piano duo team of Gülru Ensari and Herbert Schuch. As Schuch...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024
Schubert + Brahms 2 (Can Çakmur)
If Can Çakmur’s recordings so far have shown anything, it’s that this rising star of the Turkish piano scene has...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2024
PÄRT Diagrams: Complete Piano Music (Tähe-Lee Liiv)
Arvo Pärt’s piano works may not rate as highly in his oeuvre as the choral settings or symphonic works but...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
FINNIS 'Youth'
Those au fait with the music of Edmund Finnis via releases such as ‘The Air, Turning’ (NMC, 4/19) and ‘Shades’...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
FAURÉ Complete Music for Solo Piano (Lucas Debargue)
Lucas Debargue is an artist who likes to go his own way, as witness his terrifically characterful Scarlatti sonatas (11/19),...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
CZERNY Nocturnes (Roberte Mamou)
It’s the fate of the Austrian composer Carl Czerny to be known not as the composer of over 1000 compositions...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
BROWN 24 Preludes and Fugues (Nathan Williamson)
In 2011 Christopher Brown began composing 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano, completing them in time for his 70th birthday...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2024
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 7, 8 & 12 (Gianluca Cascioli)
For his first recording on a fortepiano, Gianluca Cascioli has chosen works by Beethoven composed and published between 1796 and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024
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